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Wednesday, 1 March 2017

In
this project, Hazel has totally captured the essence of Seth's
philosophy to follow your muse and let it flow. Painterly layers and
splats abound, and the paint colours really pop. Lots of interactive
elements make this piece an absolute joy! Lots of eye candy too!

Hello everyone, it's Hazel Agnew here, with my latest project.Mission
control asked me to produce something under the umbrella of "Paints
with Infusions" using the new products from the very talented artist
Seth Apter! No
hesitation here, so, going into Grungetastic mode I decided to produce a
book. The reason being that I could experiment with lots of ideas to
display all the elements.

Here are the Seth new products. For a list of stockists see this post here.

I also used a selection of wonderful Infusions....you just can't ignore them can you!

The
first step was to select some oddments of card to create the "scruffy
pages". I used a Seth Spellbinders die to cut holes in them so that you
would see through to the next pages.

The inside and outside cover was just splattered with paint onto a black gessoed background.

I
treated the whole book as a fun experimental, "lets see what happens",
project. To me, art is all about self expression, trying to relax and
just go with the flow. Maybe its my excuse for painting over the edges,
getting splurges everywhere! We are all different!

What fun I
had producing some rusty buttons which started out as bog standard
plastic ones. Some of them now look like tortoiseshell!

I
don't want to drag you through every last detail of every page. Suffice
to say that there are infusions onto crackle, infusions with metallic
glaze, scraping, spraying, dabbing.....an infusion fest! I will add
more details on my blog for those of you wanting the nitty-gritty.

The
acetate page is only partly printed onto the back and painted, enabling
you to see the next page. I was able to punch holes at the bottom and
thread mini stars that I created from Shrink Plastic.

To complete my project, I added some Sari silks and woolly fibres to the rings and then smiled at it. Seth's products make me smile a lot, they are loads of fun!

So,
if splattering, spraying, squishing, dripping, spreading, crackling and
rusting could be your cup of tea, why not play like me and just see
where it takes you. You could make a tag in this style, or decorate a
box to hold some of your bits and bobs. With PaperArtsy paints and
infusions, combined with Seth's products, the world is your lobster!

Hazel Agnew, signing off and welcoming you to chat on Twitter, @craftroomgran, or visit my blog , Mellifluous Meanderings.

Hazel
it looks like you had an absolute ball with this book!! I am itching to
touch and feel it - you had better bring it to the next show you come to - show and tell!! It needs to be stroked! ~ Leandra

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Grungetastic is exactly the word! What an amazing book full of brilliant painty layers and details. I just love the holes cut through from page to page revealing little sneak peeks of the delights to come. Amazing work, Hazel!Alison x

Fab Hazel. Love the little glimmers you get of the next page. You get to see something different each time you pick up the book. I enjoyed reading through and all of the pictures of your post and love the 'relaxed' approach, works really well.

Hazel, this is such a fabulous, spot on project! The effects with paint and Infusions are superb. I love all the layers, and the peeks 'through the keyhole', as it were, are totally inspired! This is a stunning creation!xxx

Hazel, I have visited and revisited, and still revisited this post! What kind of amazing artistry has been held up in that amazing mind of yours for this to pour out! UN-believable! I don't have words to express how cool this is and how I love the wonky layering. Well done!

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